skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does anyone know a good resource to learn "a strong understanding of bits and bytes, and knowledge of how computers lay out data in memory"
Sorry but you don't seem to understand how antitrust law works. Today, in the US and many other parts of the world, Google has a monopoly in the search market. Google is using their monopoly in that market to influence a second market (any one of a number of content verticals). It doesn't matter whether the service is free, or not free. Influence and unfair competition - this is the definition of antitrust. (How can any SEO or SEM expert ever compete against Google itself for search rankings or ad placements? They can't.) Microsoft tried to use its monopoly in OS to influence browser choice, and was rightly persecuted for it; this case is not much different.
Sometimes when a government agency settles with a low fine, its a case they know is on shaky grounds. Defendant thinks they can win but also knows how much it will cost. Usually more than the fine.

If something is so serious that the company should be put out of business for doing it, then it needs to involve more than a rule a government regulatory agency wrote themselves. Especially when the government agency is composed of individuals eager for private sector work after they "retire."
And... whats the f-ing title of his book. I understand he is not self publishing but I thought that he said that in todays world he was still responsible for promoting his book. If so I think he failed a little bit here.
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> I've always thought that the standard black Thinkpads were unspeakably ugly. And I'm not even a design snob.

"Ugly", is of course, subjective, but do keep in mind that the original thinkpad line is generally considered a design classic.

Also keep in mind that thinkpads in the last decade or so have shifted a great deal design-wise from the original, losing much of the aesthetic purity along the way.

The original thinkpad was yer basic stark black monolith (all right angles, no curves or wedges to speak of) with the barest minimum of accent (the bright red nub pointer and button markers), and a lovely silky surface texture that made you want to caress it. No tacky chrome-look plastic. No touchpad to bloat up the lower surface. Just quality of materials and purity of form.

While recent thinkpads share the color scheme with the original, they've lost many of the other iconic design cues, both obvious and subtle.

So I kinda see where you're coming from if you're talking about recent models, but the original thinkpads were absolutely beautiful.
A lot of non tech people are happy to buy apple products even with an impending refresh. Probably a combination of apple keeping quiet on new products before launch and the products already being good enough for most people.
What were the findings of these published research papers?
You're right that PNG optimizers will yield better results, but PNG8 isn't the same in both products.

Photoshop won't do 8 bit opacity (as opposed to hard transparency), whereas Fireworks will.
They're meant to hold people in space suits, not flimsy clothing.
me 2.

Been using it in the recent years.
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Google controls 90%+ of the search market in almost every European country. In the US, it varies based on how you measure it but is around 80%. Also, the definition of a monopoly is not a strict % test but considers many other factors.
We haven't seen Flash for Android anymore, either.
We were discussing whether this event met Wikipedia's notability requirements. Those requirements are that the topic be 'worthy of notice' -- that it's been mentioned by more than one verifiable, third-party source. Clearly that requirement has been met and this event is notable. The fame, importance or popularity of the subject are not considerations for Wikipedia's notability requirement.

Should you wish to discuss the event and the research it spawned, I'm sure you can find a discussion group for that. I'm not your research assistant, and I doubt the sincerity of your interest, given you dismissed these papers' existence outright mere hours ago.
I have a favour to ask of HN.

I'm responsible for webcasting Copenhagen Suborbitals launches, and we're having a lot of great discussions about what works and what doesn't in a live webcast of a launch. We obviously want our webcasts to be as interesting as possible, and so I'd like to ask you a question:

What do you think could be done better in this Space X webcast? Is there something you're missing? Something you think would be cool? Something that's bothering you? Are the speakers good? Why?

I'm sure we can learn a lot by asking potential viewers what they think, and implement it for next summers launches.

And good luck to SpaceX!
Report: For The First Time In Decades, US Is Bleeding High-Skilled Immigrants
To the degree that the article depends on a silly, invented word that will be forgotten in a week, to the same degree the criticism has merit.
Firefox gets this right. Frecency combined with machine learning. It's why Firefox's Awesomebar still can't be beat.
http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html
"there's no reason it can't match (or surpass) C."

No reason?, so run-time bounds checking, type checking/resolution and GC are free of charge then (as in no performance penalty)? Managed heap re/allocation are free? JITting is even free right? What about when the machine is low on virtual memory? can it compete them? how about when there is not an unoccupied processor core and ram channel available to be dedicated to a GC cycle? What about the context switches that exist on every non RTOS? and how this affects a stack based VM? A modern JS engine is heavily slowed by the stack/register abstraction that the VM utilizes when the machine has other tasks on hand.

How about that for some reasons? I am looking forward to your rebuttal... Tell me how doing more work can be faster please? There must be something I am missing here.

Sure there are great VMs that are blazing fast and are absolutely a sufficient tool for a large majority of tasks at hand - fine. I am just tired of the "fast as C" or "Faster than C" statements by those who appear to always feel slighted by the fact that their language is not fast as optimized C and the proclaimed (and false) expertise by users of such languages. They have no knowledge to back up their claims so instead of engaging in a discussion - they simply down vote with bitterness.
Instead of shimming, directly wrapping IndexedDB API and fail back to WebSQL have better performance and more robust https://bitbucket.org/ytkyaw/ydn-db
Same deal in the University Village store near University of Washington. They even set up a tent to pitch to the standing queue for the latest iThing du jour.
> It's not like anybody suffers from second-hand MMORPG.

Addicts always say they're making a personal choice that doesn't affect anyone else, whether it's WoW or booze or blow. And they're always wrong.

The last AA meeting I went to, someone spoke for the first time and told a story about a typical night at the bar. Drinking, watching the game and minding his own business. Just like every night. Except this time, 8 beers deep, his daughter walked from home to the bar and tugged on his sleeve - there was nobody at home but her and she was scared.

Bet you'd never heard of "second-hand drinking" either.
Please allow me to correct your mistaken impression that WoW players are all addicts that have no lives and no hobbies that impress other people:

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/nordrassil/Spink/advan... is my main WoW toon (already level capped for the current just-released expansion and raiding), with weeks of /played time.

http://www.goodreads.com/review/stats/2444699-jane is the last couple of years worth of books I've read. How many people do you know read 50+ books a year?

I prefer to run, and I sustain an average of 8 minutes per mile in 5ks so I'm not an unfit slob. I don't run marathons though, I just run and swim for fun and exercise's sake.

I do all of this because it's fabulous stress relief, it's a great time-filler when I don't have the space/time to work (e.g. cooking/restaurants, boarding flights, random 5 minutes at places, right before bed), and WoW in particular enables me to spend time with friends no matter where they're located. I can do this in the first place because I don't do things many people do such as watching TV.

It's funny how people are incredibly judgmental about WoW but they find it incredibly impressive I read a lot of books and sustain reasonable times in runs. I find more rational reasons to play WoW (reasonably, that is, and not by ignoring people to do so) than to read. They're both hobbies. Take anything to an extreme and it's bad. But WoW overall is not as bad as the one off horror story you'll read about about parents ignoring their kids to raid.
I would love to see a channel or webapp that had the real-time telemetry feeds. As techy as possible.
The engineer host sounds like a goofball. When he tries to add his personality it sounds really artificial and forced.
OP and author here. I'm a long time HN reader but this is only my second submission. I know my weekend hack is no where near amazing but I think it's useful which is why I intentionally spent extra time making it easy to reuse.

Could you explain what kind of posts you want on HN front page and why my submission is unfit to be on it so I can avoid making the same mistake?
I went to the Sony store to savor the first OLED television available for purchase. Oh man, it was sweet.
Do you actually think Ken disagrees with me?

Hint: he doesn't. He wouldn't accept a line of code starting with "rm -rf $VAR" in ~30 minutes on a Sunday morning.
I remember programming a TRS-80 Model I with 4k of memory and thinking I'd never write a program to fill "All that memory".

Soon after the owner of the computer (My High School Physics teacher) coughed up money to upgrade it to 16k. Then I was convinced this is it.. I'll never use all that memory.

Today I was working on a program that will service BILLIONS of transactions per day and 100,000's of queries per second and consume terrabytes of memory across many machines..

What a difference a couple years makes! :-)
>Water needs to be expensive because people are using it waste fully because it's cheap. //

You could ration it - allow people to sell their ration and reward water conservation; or provide a free allowance with an increasing charge for additional volume. Simply making water the same amount of expensive per litre isn't right IMO. Water should be treated differently as it's such a necessity for life.
With all due respect to your contribution to current technology, I think Jobs can and probably should be compared to Edison or Tesla, not because he did the same kind of work (he didn't) but because he illustrates the shift in the quality of important achievements between T/E's era and ours, and performed an equivalent role in helping bring about the core developments of our time. In Tesla and Edison's case, these core developments involved the application of novel principles and the development of radical new core technologies. In Jobs' case, this involved tying together all the strands of post-WWII technologial innovation into one streamlined package, creating an aura or mystique, and dragging the mainstream of society online. Once people like Tesla and Edison fill out the core innovations at a certain level of technology, the important next step becomes working out what to do with those innovations at a higher level of abstraction. Jobs' was active several steps up the abstraction ladder.

An important part of what he did was simply accessibility or marketability. Forgive me if this sounds like I am diminishing the role of relatively pure technical work and innovation (work which Jobs certainly made the most of and largely did not contribute to directly from my understanding) but making technology attractive and accessible was a very important step during this period. Jobs' work may not have the romance of Tesla or Edison, but from what I've read it sounds like he was an exceptional (if very lucky) individual who combined a certain vision (of course continuously evolving) with a certain aggressive determination to realise that vision (catalysed by the incredible opportunities he was given in life). He was a different man, not better or worse (though maybe less romantic) to suit a different time.
RailsBug : Firebug Extension for Ruby on Rails
you're kidding right? and at least referring to gcc's -fprofile-generate -fprofile-use right?
That's actually one of the things we're working on. We're hoping to have a fighterjet-like heads up display showing altitude, roll, pitch, etc. that will be overlayed on the stream.
> No reason?, so run-time bounds checking, type checking/resolution and GC are free of charge then (as in no performance penalty)? Managed heap re/allocation are free? JITting is even free right? What about when the machine is low on virtual memory? can it compete them? how about when there is not an unoccupied processor core and ram channel available to be dedicated to a GC cycle? What about the context switches that exist on every non RTOS? and how this affects a stack based VM? A modern JS engine is heavily slowed by the stack/register abstraction that the VM utilizes when the machine has other tasks on hand.

All of these can be summed up simply: none of these things have to happen in the execution of JS code. None. They're implementation features.

Take this JS code:

function addfive(x) {
return x + 5;
}

var correct = addfive(3) == 8;

There is no need for garbage collection, it can be purely type inferred and compiled statically, and the object representations could be minimal (there's no reason it can't use tagged ints Ocaml-style).

Again, you're arguing that all JS code can't be as fast or faster than C. That's obviously true, but it has absolutely no value in the real world. What matters is that some code -- especially math-heavy code -- can be just as fast as C, because it compiles to the exact same thing.

I'm no JS fan, but I've spent a lot of time working on compilers for other "high-level languages". I can say, without a doubt, that C is not the be-all and end-all of programming languages.
The papers I have found were all proposals or investigations of the possibility of further research.

You seemed to be saying there was actual research based on the incident, and I wondered if you had found something different. I assume you did not.

Also, to directly quote the wikipedia page on Notability: "Notability is the property of being worthy of notice, having fame, or being considered to be of a high degree of interest, significance, or distinction."
Suggest HN: Submit Reliable Sources with Original Titles & Canonical URLs
Reviewing the HN guidelines, I see three guidelines that are good reminders for all of us here:

1. Prefer Original Sources

The Hacker News guidelines say "Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports on something they found on another site, submit the latter." Blogspam is highly disfavored here on HN. Everyone prefers submissions of sources that actually do some fact-checking and research before writing.

2. Prefer Original Titles

There was some controversy about this a while ago, and the most recent update to the guidelines here emphasizes preferring original titles.

The guidelines now say, "please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait." That's a rewrite from an earlier version of the guidelines.

Most titles devised by journalists actually grab attention better (and with less spin on the discussion) than most titles made up by HN participants. I've seen really, really good new articles fail to gain the discussion they deserve mostly because they are submitted with a modified title.

3. Prefer Canonical URLs

A trickier issue is what URL to submit, from sources that give articles multiple URLs. Some sites distinguish print versions of articles or mobile-viewable versions of articles from the main view of an article with different URLs. The suggestion of experienced users is to prefer the "canonical URL" for every article submitted here. Some readers like to read mobile versions, and some like to read print versions, and some like to read one-page versions. The canonical URL should either autodetect a reader's Web client or format to a preestablished user preference from many of the better sites on the Web. Other URLs have unpredictable behavior when submitted to HN and read on many other users' devices--with an especially annoying behavior being starting a print job as soon as the page is accessed. Just submit the canonical URL, and let the user decide what to do from there.
So far so good, the pre-launch show is interesting, full of interesting content both live (Q&A) and pre-recorded videos.

The speakers reading from a prompter is a bit too obvious at times but this is a minor annoyance. It's awesome that they are actual engineers/managers involved with SpaceX's day-to-day operations.

(It might make sense to setup an off-site poll for this, I'm not sure Hacker News' commenting system will scale well for this kind of feedback.)
My grandmother lived to be 91 years old and she used to tell stories of horse drawn buggies and the first radio on her block. And how she would go to the house that had the first TV in her neighborhood.

She would tell me these stories while marveling over the crazy stuff I do every day of my life. Pure science fiction to her when she was growing up.

Some day all of what YOU are doing will be that way and people WILL be doing what we consider Science Fiction today.

Enjoy the ride, it won't slow down for any of us!
https://github.com/visionmedia/n/pull/85/files#r1781158

| for d in bin lib share include; do
| rm -rf $N_PREFIX/$d

LGTM!
He is very goofy but exactly what I would expect from a rocket engineer doing tv hosting. Quirky but awesome! Doesn't sound artificial to me at all, but I'll agree he doesn't sound very comfortable doing it yet.
That you for the valuable response - BTW I only claimed that it was the lowest level structured language.
The air supply was a reference to revenue stream, iirc. Early on Netscape charged for their browser, and also charged for other products around it (NS Server, etc). I think even by the time they got to giving away the browser for free, it was seen as a bit of a 'gateway' product to other paid NS products. Those were threats to MS as well (or were perceived to potentially be).
Yep. Real engineers FTW!
No hurt feelings. No yelling. Here's my point: real simplicity is the stuff of Dennis Ritchie. Not Steve Jobs.

As I said, Apple makes beautiful hardware. And you could say they promote a certain "simplicity" of use. Maybe you could even call Apple hardware "simple". I don't know. It's an enclosure with a board inside. What I do know is that once you get to the software side, Jobs is not the guy who should get credit for "simplicity" of design. That guy should be Dennis Ritchie. Alas, many journalists will never know this and write about it, because they don't spend time learning C and UNIX (whereas they do spend time using learning and Apple products that are built with C and UNIX).

It is the simplicity Ritchie gave us, his design philosophy, that allows so much to be created, like the software that drives Apple products. Anyone can create simple things or complex things in software, but we all need to start with something simple in order to do the building. That something is not the work of Steve Jobs. It is the work of Dennis Ritchie and colleagues.

If the title did not use the word "simplicity" I would have no comment. Jobs is a hero of design. But simplicity, to me, is another matter. He is not the true source. Even the early Apple computers where the software was "simple" were not the work of Jobs, but of his co-founder, who is not longer part of Apple.
LOL.. My last name is "Bunch".. I have six kids, three girls and three boys..

I doubt most of this crowd would know what show I'm alluding to.. I gave up years ago making the reference in younger crowds!
Which is also a silly claim.
I'd like it to be richer in information, even if I won't understand all of it. I'd like to see diagrams of the engine, description of how it works, discussion of pros/cons of various technologies, how this one is different, etc, etc.

For example, they mentioned they don't want the rocket to fly through clouds because of water vapor. Why is that? How does it interfere with the rocket? What can it cause? How confidently can we measure water vapor in atmosphere?

Simply, much more technical information and more educational.
Wow, they're going to land the ignition rockets in future launches! That's great and sounds like it would be cheaper than the NASA space shuttle. Can't even begin to imagine the amazing feedback control that'll go on in that thing.
Father and son send toy train to space with weather balloon
The male engineer is a little nerdy, but it works for me.
The female engineer is more polished, but still slightly nerdy in an appealing way.
Halftime marching band interpretation of videogame themes
The Story Of Lockitron: Crowdfunding Without Kickstarter
I'm about 90% sure that that is not true.
See previous HN discussion with links to related documents on the same issue:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4607747
the pricing is a big diff. the big prime contractors tend to cost more per payload mass than SpaceX. plus the primes do pricing based on "cost plus" which means a general incentive to increase costs in order to increase profits. SpaceX is doing firm fixed price quotes, and builds their profit margin into that (at least in long run, after R&D costs recovered), and eats risk, as you mentioned.

Also, and this is big, frankly SpaceX is operated in a much more nimble and entrepreneurial fashion. The primes, while having lots of very smart and well-meaning people working for them, have BDC-itis. Musk wants to dramatically improve the world and the species, and put a colony on Mars. The leadership of the primes seem to just want to make money. Musk/SpaceX is more exciting and compelling for a lot of folks, plus they're more likely to lead to spin-off missions down the road.